Lea Thompson Quotes

Red Dawn was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea of being a tomboy, and riding horses and shooting guns.

I love really crappy carnivals, where you think the ride is going to break. There's something so seedy about them.

And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.

In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic.

It's hard not to want to strangle people when you work with them for four years.

My mother told me to raise my kids with calculated neglect. They get their self-worth from doing what they can do and not having everything done for them.

Very good in the Back to the Future movies, but was born to play Caroline in the City.

Supporting myself at an early age was the best training for life I could have possibly received.

My kids can't watch ('Howard the Duck'). By the time I get in bed with the duck, they are, like, 'Turn it off, mom. You in bed with a duck is just pretty much a deal breaker.'

The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying.

Red Dawn' was very resonant with a lot of people - they love that movie. I always thought it was a little hysterical.

One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!

'Caroline In The City' was such an interesting thing, because I'd never been on the set of a sitcom or even auditioned for a sitcom when they gave me that part.

It's actually shocking to me how hard it's been to get back into the movie business.

Usually, you don't really end up lifelong buddies with your co-stars.

I don't even know how to swim!

I only grow hair in places that men like.

I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.

My beauty secret is to try to keep my heart as open and happy as I can, because it really makes the sad lines on my face look better.

One of things I like about looking at pictures when you're young and also meeting back with old friends you haven't seen in a long time is, for me, it's a glimpse of who I was.